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A small island, the southernmost of a north-south chain of small islands about 2 km north of Mt. Caroline Mikklesen. An ANARE party landed by aircraft at Kista Rock on 26 August 1957, and obtained an astrofix.

The body of water between the Flat Islands and the Jocelyn Islands in Holme Bay, off the Mawson Coast, of Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The passage was first navigated by M.V. Kista Dan (Capt. H.C. Petersen) in 1954 en route to the site on which ANARE under Phillip Law established Mawson station.

A small island about 2 km ENE of Smith Rocks, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and ANARE 1956. Named after V.J. Kitney, supervising technician (radio) at Mawson in 1968.

A strait between McMahon Islands and the Thala Hills, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Proliv Kitovyy (Whale Strait) by the Soviet Expedition.

A pass in the range just east of Mount Egerton. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61) who used the pass to cross the range.

A group of small islands, including Farrington Island, about 9 km NNE of Couling Island, in the William Scoresby Archipelago, off Kemp Land. Farrington Island was discovered and named by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936).

A small island, about 85 m above sea level, about 6 km west of Austnes Skerries in the northern part of Edward VIII Gulf.

A prominent point about 9 km south of Cape Boothby in Kemp Land. Fixed by J.C. Armstrong of ANARE in 1959.

An Emperor penguin colony on sea-ice on the southern side of Kloa Point. Discovered from ANARE Beaver aircraft by Squadron Leader P.H. Clemence, Officer Commanding RAAF Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1957.

The largest of the Klung Islands about 2 km ENE of Welch Island off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A group of small islands 7 km north-east of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Klungholmane (The Bramble Islets).

A group of three peaks about 7 km north-east of Simmers Peak in Enderby Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Knattane (The Crags) by Norwegian cartographers.

A peak about 9 km north-west of Armstrong Peak in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land. The feature is about 1230 m above sea level. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Knausen (The Crag) by Norwegian cartographers.

A nunatak about 9 km SSE of Cape Kinsey in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Yeoman First Class M.W. Knight, USN, who served with the Operations Division of the US Naval Support Force, Antarctica, at Washington, Christchurch and McMurdo station, 1967-70.

A rock outcrop in the northern part of the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, about 6 km north of Mount Underwood. Photographed by ANARE in 1957 and 1958 and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1962. Named Gora Knippovicha (Mount Knippovich) by the Soviet Expedition after N.M. Knippovich, Russian Arctic explorer.

A water passage between Holl Island and Peterson Island in the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieut. L.C. Knowles, USN, engineer officer on the USS Burton Island,, a ship which took part in USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

That portion of the coast of Wilkes Land between Cape Hordern 100.52 degrees E and the Hatch Islands 109.28 degrees E. Discovered in February 1840, by the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Charles Wilkes, who named it after Lieut. S.R. Knox, USN., captain of the USEE tender Flying Fish.

An isolated nunatak about 25 km south-west of Mount Kernot in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1959. Named after Mike Knox-Little, radio officer at Mawson in 1974, a member of the ANARE Enderby Land survey party in 1975 and who has wintered 8 times

The largest of a group of three islands lying about 1.1 km north-west of the western end of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A group of peaks in Enderby Land, extending WSW-ENE, about 115 km west of the Leckie Range. Discovered and fixed by an ANARE dog-sledge party in December, 1958. Named after G.A. Knuckey, surveyor at Mawson in 1958, and a member of the dog-sledge party.